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Our Vision

To unify, educate and action positive change through the power of light

If you’re interested in our neuroscience and biophilic design book, click the link below to buy a copy or to book a brief overview of the subject for your team via a CPD.

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Biophilic Design Book / CPD Conversations of Light Webinars Videos

Over the last 3 billion years, we existed harmoniously with natural light…

All creatures developed finely-tuned light-sensing instruments...

that optimise their lives in line with the natural 24 hour cycle of the world. Not only does its effect amplify the beauty throughout the spaces we inhabit, but it has a major effect on our biology, emotions, daily routines and more recently understood, our health and well-being.

The Great Indoors

And in just 150 years, we have turned this on our heads, now spending 87% of our time indoors, under artificial light sources.

Creating a community of lighting enthusiasts...

The Light Tribe exists to create a community of lighting enthusiasts that can help change the way we design optimal spaces for humans, reconnecting us to the Genesis of light that we have been used to for so long.

The Power of Light Video

Light floods through our lives on a daily basis. It is present in so many forms and is arguably the most influential force on how we perceive and connect with the world around us. It is our great pleasure to introduce our immersive film experience 'The Power of Light' which is a dedication to this magical medium in all its glory...

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Genesis Video

Humans have an innate and genetically determined affinity with nature. As the world continues to urbanise, the natural tranquillity of biophilic design has become ever more important to us. Our biophilically designed products are supported by the local community offering naturally occuring shapes, colours, and textures, full-spectrum light and respect for the planet.

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Biophilic Design Book

Phos is much more than just a family lighting company. We are passionate about the power of light and its ability to improve the world around us.
With that in mind, we have combined eight years of passionate research, exploration, and discovery, into one awe-inspiring book, that aims to explain the neuroscience of light and biophilic design.

Bringing together our favourite and most inspiring facts about light and our evolution in the natural world, it aims to inspire readers to think differently about lighting design and its importance in creating organic, biophilic spaces. Moreover, it serves as a passionate tribute to our company and our commitment to crafting some of the world’s finest biophilic luminaires.

Whether you are a designer or simply interested in the role that lighting plays in our lives, this book is sure to leave you with a newfound appreciation for the power of biophilic design, human behaviour, and wavelengths.

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Conversations with Light

Watch our interviews with these light experts

Biography

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I’ve been learning, studying and researching colour for over 20 years now and over 10 years ago I decided to give up my corporate Project Manager/Analysis career and dive deep into the fascinating world of Applied Colour Psychology. Since then I’ve been supporting corporate brands, small businesses, individuals and charities to use colour to shine a light on their authentic personality and creative spaces to support positive health and wellbeing.

Karen Haller LEADING INTERNATIONAL AUTHORITY IN THE FIELD OF BEHAVIOURAL COLOUR & DESIGN PSYCHOLOGY

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Dr Shelley James is an international expert on light and well-being, TedX and keynote speaker, WELL Advisor and Visiting Lecturer at the Royal College of Art. She is also a trained glass artist and electrician. Light is as important to the healthy function of every cell in your body as food, water and air. Shelley is on a mission to inspire others to harness the power of the humble lightbulb to be healthier, happier and save the planet too...

Dr Shelley James Neuroscience of Light

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Xander holds the roles of Sustainability Director and Chief Technical Officer at Phos Ltd. With a unique blend of qualifications as a mixologist, distiller and chef, he extends his expertise beyond the workplace, delivering lectures at universities throughout the UK about the power of light and organic design. His primary interest lies in exploring how sensory experience can enhance the overall quality of people's lives.

Alexander Cadisch Sustainability Director and Chief Technical Officer

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Russell Foster is Professor of Circadian Neuroscience and the Head of Department of Ophthalmology. He is also a Nicholas Kurti Senior Fellow at Brasenose College. Prior to this, Russell was at Imperial College where Russell was Chair of Molecular Neuroscience within the Faculty of Medicine. Russell Foster’s research spans basic and applied circadian and photoreceptor biology.

Professor Russell Foster Professor of Circadian Neuroscience

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Following his graduation from Wismar University - Architectural Lighting Design MA in 2010, Asfuroglu has worked at Speirs+Major as a senior member of the creative team for almost 8 years. He worked on a diverse range of projects which include Battersea Power Station and Covent Garden Masterplans, Shakespeare's New Place, Medius House and City Point.

Kerem Ali Asfuroglu lighting designer, graphic artist & founder of Dark Source

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Dr Shelley James Neuroscience of Light

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Liz West is a British artist (b.1985) who graduated from Glasgow School of Art in 2007. West’s broad body of work encompasses site-specific installations, sculpture, and wall-based artwork. West creates vivid environments that mix luminous colour and radiant light and aims to provoke a heightened sensory awareness in the viewer through her works. She is interested in exploring how sensory phenomena can invoke psychological and physical responses that tap into our own deeply entrenched relationships to colour. West's investigation into the relationship between colour and light is often realised through an engagement between materiality and a given site...

Liz West Light Artist

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Alexander Cadisch Sustainability Director and Chief Technical Officer

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After winning scholarships at RADA and LAMDA for Technical Theatre Toby completed a diploma at LAMDA in 2003. Toby soon started his first production company designing and producing private events and concerts, including The Happy Mondays, Sugababes & The Ludlow Shakespeare Festival. Now Toby is the Founding Director of "I Smashed It Productions". He has moved on from Lighting Design into Production Design, creating and developing all elements of a live show. Recent projects include various international festivals and Artists including Matt Corby, Art Vs Science, Elbow, Elton John, The Prodigy, Mogwai...

Toby Dennis Founding Director of I Smashed It Productions.

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British artist Bruce Munro is best known for producing large, immersive, light-based installations, which often employ a massing of components by the thousands. An artistic diarist, he has spent over thirty years collecting and recording ideas and images in his sketchbooks, to which he returns over time for source material. Frequently, Munro’s subject matter is his own experience of fleeting moments of rapport with the world and existence in its largest sense—of being part of life’s essential pattern. His reoccurring motif is the use of light on an environmental scale in order to evoke an emotional response in the viewer. His work has been shown at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London; Waddesdon...

Bruce Munro Light Installation Artist